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Patented May 30,1916

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MATCH MACHINE.

APPLICATION, FILED NOV. 29. 1915.

Patented May 30,1916.

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MATCH-MACHINE.

' Specification of letters Patent.

- Application filed November 29, 1915. Serial No. 63,922.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that I, SAMUEL E.'RA1IE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Match-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in match machines such as take match splints from a hopper and insert them in a carrier preparatory to dipping them in the several compositions.

My invention relates moreparticularly to the sticking head and accessory parts, and the object of my invention is to produce a simple and reliable device which will keep clean the splint carrying channels of the sticking head, and also serve to assist in guiding the splints to the carrier.

My invention is also intended to provide means for the purpose above described which can be attached to existing types of machines without difiiculty, and further to produce a device of the character stated which is simple, inexpensive, and positive in action. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken plan view of a portion of a match station or splint inserting part of the machine. Fig. 2 is a broken front elevation of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3' is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 2 with one of the partitions 1 1 removed, and showing the sticking head withdrawn from a carrier. Fig. {i is a view similar to Fig. 3 but with the sticking head moved inward so as to insert the splints in the carrier, and Fig. 5 is a broken inner end elevation of a part of the sticking head and the partitions or guide plates.

The machine is provided with a housing 10 which is really a lower extension of the ordinary splint containing hopper, and for convenience has flanges 11 at the top on which runs the shaker 12 having cross blades 13. The hopper is generally arranged upon the member 12, and the blades 13 moving back and forth with the member 12 serve to straighten the match sticks and drop them into the sticking mechanism below.

Patented May 30, 1916.

The above mechanism is not shown or described in detail because it forms no part of this invention. The housing 10 is provided with numerous guide partitions 14: which are of thin metal and are in parallel relation, these projecting rearward from the housingto a point near'the carrier 15. The plates or partitions 1 1 are chiefly intended as cleaning plates, though they also serve as gulde plates, and they are spaced apart a little morethanthe thickness of the match splints so that the splints as they fall must liestraight between them. The carrier 15 can be of anyusual or preferred type capable of receiving match splints presented endwise to it, and as shown it is a common construction comprising a plate 15 having holes 16 in which the ends of the match splints 22 are inserted.

A sticking head 17 reciprocates immediately below the housing 10, and this is provided with channels 18 and 19 at different levels, in which the match sticks 22 lie, and at the outer end of the channels or grooves are shoulders 20 and 21 against which the outer ends of the match splints rest so that as the sticking head moves inward to a point .near the carrier 15, the splints will be carried to the carrier and their ends inserted in the holes 16 thereof, or in equivalent holding devices if another form of carrier is used. The sticking head 17 is longitudinally slotted as shown at 23 at points between the several channels 18 and 19 as shown best in Fig. 5, and the guide plates or cleaning plates 14 which are secured to the housing 10, fit into these slots, so that when the sticking head is reciprocated the'members 14 act to clean out the channels as they will strike any slivers or obstructions which may be lodged therein and push them from the sticking head as the latter is retracted from its advanced position. I have shown the sticking head 17 provided with a shank or extension 17 by means of which it can be reciprocated, but this has nothing to do with the invention, which lies wholly in the arrangement of the guide plates or partitions 1 1 and their relation to the housing or hopper extension and the sticking head.

It will be clearly seen that the particular means of holding the splints on the sticking head, can be departed from, and that the form of carrier can be changed without affecting the principle of the invention. 

